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Reddit Wallpaper Changer is released as free software without warranties under the MIT License.

Over the past year, for one reason or another I've not had much time to focus on developing RWC further and cater for the new Reddit searching functionality or implement the features & suggestions I wanted to.

(with permission to post from Ugleh - this app is not formally affiliated with the original project)

I was mostly unsatisfied with the other similar apps on the Play Store, so I took on creating my own as a side-project for university to include features that Redditors truly wanted.

I've been working on the app for a couple of months now, and I've finally felt that I've worked out enough bugs and features to release it to a larger group. It's a relatively lightweight Android app with battery and memory-usage in mind, and only runs when it absolutely needs to. It supports many of the features that you guys are used to with other similar tools, like multiple subreddits and random image selection.

UPDATE 3.4 (Dec. 15, 2018): I've added a wallpaper history tab and a few more features. Feel free to send me your suggestions or bug reports, I'll be consistently maintaining the app & and new features.

Had the program installed for 3 or 4 days, with 10 minute interval. uninstalled when it just wouldn't change the wallpapers after cycling between 2 of the same wallpapers for the entire day (I had All time top, 1080p selected). Few days after that I checked usage details and I'm pretty sure this shouldn't be the case.

Windows does a good job at resizing wallpapers these days. I generally use wallpapers with a matching aspect ratio, even if the resolution is higher than my actual desktop resolution.

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Would it be possible for you to add Aspect Ratio Validation, much like your Resolution Validation function? That way I can pick up posts that my filters might otherwise miss (listing specific resolutions in the title only works when people do it)

Hello everyone. I want to say that I think it's a quite a shame this project isn't being maintained anymore. It seems to me we may only be scratching the surface of what an application like this could do.

For example, I have a feature request which would scan for top pictures on numerous specified subreddits and save them to corresponding folders for each sub. This feature alone would probably save me 5 minutes of time every day :)

Also since this application is a daemon, maybe it could it be reworked for self-hosting bots or am I off base? My dream/vision would be a user-friendly application which allows bots to be installed like plugins by only downloading, extracting, and then pasting files to a certain folder like with KeePass plugins. In my case, I'm interested in hosting moderation bots this way.

Anyway, I don't want to get too carried away with my imagination. The title says it all. How can we find developers to at least work towards the original functionality goals of this application? Fortunately, one idea came to my mind. We could petition the mod teams for photo subreddits like r/Pics, r/EarthPorn, r/OldSchoolCool, etc to see if any of them would mind stickying/promoting a thread to recruit developers. I think it's obvious these communities would have an interest in the utility this application could offer them as I'm sure many of their members save new wallpapers for themselves every day. Their subscription numbers are in the millions so there has to be at least one or two of them who would have the necessary coding skills and the will to volunteer for this project.

I've started get either the following error message details when trying to select "Current Thread" from the right-click menu or by trying to open a link from the History tab. Sometimes the program just silently quits instead of producing an error. I had been running this for some time (Windows 10) and didn't change anything, so I think the system around it changed. I tried updating to the newest version as well as doing a repair of the installation.

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So the reason I really want to use this program is to pull in the newest posts from /r/soccerbanners and use them as my wallpaper. However, when I select "Newest" in the "Grab Wallpaper By" list it only gives me the first newest wallpaper. This works fine for my use, but I think it would be cooler if I could select an amount of the newest wallpapers to loop through so that I could get a variety rather than just having one wallpaper for several hours.

I've found that certain subreddits have a mix of landscape and portrait images. "Fit" works nicely for portrait, and "Fill" for landscape

I was wondering if there could be an option that would apply either depending on the resolution of each image.

I have a 3 screen setup and I've found that some landscape wallpapers that are wider than my resolution end up on the side screens as well. This results in the left and right screens being 90% black and then a small strip of wallpaper where it connects to the middle screen.

Like the title says, I can't pull from /r/NSFW_Wallpapers. I tried adding +wallpapers and it'll pull from /r/wallpapers, so I know it's working. I have nsfw:yes as my search query, but it won't pull from /r/NSFW_Wallpapers no matter what I do.

as far as I understand, the current validation looks for numbers in titles of the threads, that's why you can't make an "at least size" option. But, is it possible to validate image size after choosing the thread? I don't care if some extra images are downloaded and discarded afterwards if it turns out that the resoution is too small, but I don't like the ugly, pixelated wallpapers. (I have a Surface book with 3000x2000 resolution, so I can't find any images which would match exactly, however I am glad to accept images with let's say 2500 horizontal resolution at least)
I don't know if there is a Windows API to get that information out of the pictures, or it would need some extra components to detect image resolution.

Not even an error message pops up saying the app crashed, instead like dead beat father it appears for but a second before vanishing into the yonder void.

Event Log says there is an error in mscorlib related to System.UnauthorizedAccess thought it might be because I'm running Windows 10 1607, so I tried it on the 1709 VM I have, that also didn't work and the Event Log showed System.IO.FileNotFoundException but more than that I can't tell you because no other information is pushed out.

The past two days, RWC has failed to load at all on my desktop. It does not appear in the system tray, nor does it appear in the task manager.

I did some digging and found this thread, which suggested that the user.config might have been corrupted. I went to the indicated location, renamed the existing user.config to something else, and started the program.

Sure enough, RWC loaded right up. I was able to copy/paste my subreddit list from the old .config to the newly-generated one, and the program functioned fine.

Cut to this morning, and the program failed to load again. I repeated the process described above -- forcing the program to regenerate the .config file -- and it is working again.

My concern is I will have to do this every time I start my computer -- why would RWC be corrupting it's .config in such a way that it can't start?

Thanks for making such a neat program, and I hope to see multi-monitor support sometime!

Hi.
I want to configure my Windscribe Proxy address to RWC. How can I do that? 'Cause where I'm living, I cannot access to the RWC wallpapers without proxy! And I don't want to keep it on all day!
Thanks!

My version recently broke and i want to go back to just picking my own wallpapers. Problem is after i uninstalled what i thought to be everything, my background is just a black screen and i cant set my own wallpaper. Just wondering why that is and if there's any fix.

Reddit Wallpaper Changer takes advantage of Reddits API so you can have your wallpaper on your desktop rotate based off of the criteria you set in the program. It will then set your wallpaper based off the interval you set. The only limits is what reddits search is limited to.
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